AUTOLOAD funniness

I've been wresting with AUTOLOAD, and have been getting counterintuitive performance results. Filling in missing accessor methods should make things run faster, but the opposite is happening. I'm wondering if I'm interefering with method lookup caching.

The server gets a new UPS, and the DSL modem and wireless router get the old one. The home network should now be able to survive short blackouts.

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